Jeremiah Ragadio

Jeremiah “Jerry” Ragadio has been a US Navy helicopter pilot since 2002 with over 2,500 total flight hours, mostly in the Sikorsky S-70 (SH-60B and MH-60R “Seahawk”), flying from Navy aircraft carriers and other surface ships. He is a military instructor pilot and was the Navy’s Naval Air Training and Operating Procedures Standardization (NATOPS) Lead Evaluator for the MH-60R (equivalent to a corporate check airman lead). He holds Commercial Pilot (Rotorcraft helicopter, Instrument Helicopter) and Commercial Pilot (multi-engine land, Instrument Airplane) FAA certificates, but hopes to do more civilian flying as his logbook only shows 1 flight in a non-military airplane.

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